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Library: omutil - miscellaneous system utilities
Include: omutil.xin
Return type: Integer
Returns:       

Random numbers based on the exponential distribution.


Declaration

  define external integer function UTIL_ExpRand (value integer lambda)


Purpose

Use this function to generate random numbers based on the exponential distribution, the mean convergs on the seed-number.

Example


  include "omutil.xin"

  process
      local integer seed-number initial {20}

      repeat for integer i from 1 to 100
           output "seed-number : %d(seed-number) i: %d(i) random-number: "
               || "d" % UTIL_ExpRand(seed-number) || "%n"
     again

        Other Library Functions
   UTIL_Env
   UTIL_ExpRand
   UTIL_GetEnv
   UTIL_GetMilliSecondTimer
   UTIL_GetProcessId
   UTIL_IsVersionCompatible
   UTIL_LibraryVersion
   UTIL_Rand
   UTIL_Sleep
   UTIL_SortIntegersByKey
   UTIL_SortIntegersByValue
   UTIL_SortStreamsByKey
   UTIL_SortStreamsByValue
   UTIL_SortSwitchesByKey
   UTIL_Srand
   UTIL_UniformRand
 
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